PES Women President Blog
Welcome to my blog! I’m Zita Gurmai, President of PES Women. This is where I share my ideas about European politics and tell you what I am doing during the 2009 European elections campaign.
Women in ties calling for a gender balanced Commission
Submitted by Zita Gurmai on 19/11/2009 15:50 ( 1 comment )
Yesterday morning, on 18 November and only a day before top EU jobs are decided, my female Members of the European Parliament (MEP) colleagues and I left the warmth of our EP offices to march together to Schuman square, where we demonstrated for a ... read more
A march of thousands for women's rights in Paris
Submitted by Zita Gurmai on 20/10/2009 14:38 ( 2 comments )
Saturday 17 October was a special day for French women, and for anyone who happened to be in Paris, myself included. It is not every day that you see over 15,000 people filling the Bastille behind banners that proudly call for «une réelle ... read more
An appeal to the women of Europe
Submitted by Zita Gurmai on 3/06/2009 15:38 ( 2 comments )
On the weekend my friend and colleague Poul Nyrup Rasmussen published an appeal to vote in this week’s European elections. I wholeheartedly support this, and would like to add a special call to women voters:Dear Sisters, dear friends:You have a ... read more
Les Marseillaises
Submitted by Zita Gurmai on 26/05/2009 13:27 ( )
After my trip to Berlin I went to Vienna to meet women candidates for the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), then after a busy weekend’s campaigning in Hungary, last Tuesday I travelled on to Marseille to join my very good friend Martine ... read more
PES is THE party of gender equality: it's official!
Submitted by Zita Gurmai on 25/05/2009 10:27 ( )
Last month I explained on this blog why the PES is THE party of gender equality. Well the European Women’s Lobby has now confimed that. It has just published its European election ‘gender audit’, which gives the conservatives (EPP) and ... read more
A woman President for Germany?
Submitted by Zita Gurmai on 23/05/2009 9:20 ( )
Last week I was at an event on women in politics held in the Hungarian Embassy in Berlin by the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), titled “More SPD for Europe”. I was joined there by SPD Chairman Franz Müntefering, a true working class hero ... read more
Why we need to step up the effort to discover AIDS vaccine
Submitted by Zita Gurmai on 18/05/2009 17:25 ( 1 comment )
Over the years as an MEP I have met many remarkable people. In late 2007 I was in Kigali, Rwanda and I was fortunate to meet Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, the Executive Secretary of Rwanda’s National Commission to Fight AIDS. She explained that women in ... read more
The PES celebrates ALL families and life choices
Submitted by Zita Gurmai on 14/05/2009 17:44 ( 7 comments )
Today I am joining with two excellent women’s rights campaigners, Edite Estrela and Anne van Lancker, to mark International Day of Families. I urge you to read this appeal and to leave a comment below to express your support. On this International ... read more
A lot done, a lot still to do
Submitted by Zita Gurmai on 8/05/2009 9:43 ( )
I am back in Hungary now after the final plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. That's it now: the current Parliament will not meet again, and the make-up of the next one is yet to be decided... I would like to take this ... read more
How much do you know about the EU?
Submitted by admin on 7/05/2009 17:04 ( )
This Saturday 9th May is a date everyone should have highlighted and underlined in their calendar: it's Europe Day, an opportunity to celebrate the fact that we live in a peaceful, integrated and diverse European Union. And if one thing is more ... read more
SÍ SE PUEDE!
Submitted by Zita Gurmai on 30/04/2009 15:47 ( 1 comment )
Last weekend I was in Toulouse for the launch of the PES election campaign. What an event! And if it was so great, this was in no small part thanks to the fantastic spirit and energy of every last activist, candidate and, of course, the fantastic ... read more
Why the PES is THE party of gender equality
Submitted by Zita Gurmai on 21/04/2009 15:18
Welcome to my blog! Over the coming weeks this is where I will be publishing my thoughts and comments on the campaign; especially, of course, on the topic of gender equality and women’s rights. As President of PES Women, I am proud that it is the ... read more
